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16.03.2018

EURATEX – NEW STRATEGIC COURSE AND LEADERSHIP TEAM

EURATEX is pleased to announce the launch of a new strategic course to strengthen the voice of the European textile and apparel industry with the European policy institutions in Brussels as well as governmental bodies and partner organisations around the globe.

Over the last 10 years the EU Textile & Clothing industry, representing an annual turnover of over € 171 billion, some 178,000 companies and 1.7 million workers, has been able to modernise and reinvent itself into a forward-looking, innovative and export-oriented sector...

A Blueprint to Revitalise Skills and Jobs in the TCLF Sectors in Europe

The need to anticipate and enhance adequate skills and learning methods as well as to attract and qualify workers has brought together 21 public and private stakeholders of the Textile, Clothing, Leather, and Footwear (TCLF) sectors under a strategic 4-year Erasmus+ project called “Skills4Smart TCLF”. The aim of the project is to create a robust and sustainable community of private and public actors across Europe, which will re-shape and update skills and education in these traditional and yet dynamic and innovative sectors within an EU-wide skills strategy...

ART-CHERIE 2nd NEWSLETTER – January 2018

The second technical meeting of the ART-CHERIE project aimed to discuss the first draft outline of the e-learning units that the University of the Arts London is currently developing, and as well as the digitalisation process of the Prato Textile Museum collections. Additionally, the set-up and the development of the platform was reviewed to see how the e-learning courses will be hosted...

ART-CHERIE (Achieving and Retrieving Creativity through European Fashion Cultural Heritage Inspiration) is a 30 months Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project that is developing a vocational training course using Fashion Heritage to inspire professional fashion designers. On 18-19 January 2018, the ART-CHERIE consortium held its meeting at the University of the Arts London - London College of Fashion...

Techtextil and Texprocess 2019: registration now open

From 14 to 17 May 2019, Techtextil and Texprocess will present the complete spectrum of technical textiles, nonwovens and textile processing technology in Frankfurt am Main.

Under the motto ‘Space for Innovation’, Techtextil, Leading International Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens, will present the complete spectrum of technical textiles, functional apparel textiles and textile technologies and their applications from 14 to 17 May 2019. ‘Space for Progress’ is the motto of the concurrent Texprocess that, as the Leading International Trade Fair for Processing...[read more]

16.01.2018

Industry unites in the fight against microplastic release from the washing of synthetic textiles

A new industry agreement for the prevention of microplastic release from synthetic textiles washing was officially launched today and endorsed by the European Commission. ...[read more]

21.12.2017

EURATEX published today the call for tender for the project TeXDR

EURATEX published today the call for tender for the project TeXDR. Deadline 15th January 2018 - Call for tender [read more]